It cur’d Noah’s Ham of trichina,
Greas’d babies and pig-tails in China,
Heal’d Arabs from far-off Medina—
The blind and the halt and the lame!
Herodotus saw it at Zante,
It blazed in the visions of Dante
And pyres of supine Hindostan;
The tropics and zones have rich fountains,
It bubbles ’mid snow cover’d mountains
And flows in the pits of Japan.